Sunday Special: OSU is collecting Stark County quarterbacks

While the high school football season ended with a bit of a whimper in Stark County, have you ever wondered what a team would look like if you could combine players? Urban Meyer apparently has.

Todd Porter CantonRep.com Special Projects Editor @toddporter

While the high school football season ended with a bit of a whimper in Stark County, have you ever wondered what a team would look like if you could combine players?

Urban Meyer apparently has.

For example, how good would a team be with McKinley's Eric Glover-Williams and Massillon quarterback Danny Clark together?

Ohio State will find out starting in 2017. For the first time in history, Ohio State will have McKinley and Massillon quarterback on its roster.

Glover-Williams has verbally committed as part of the 2015 recruiting class. Clark will sign with the Buckeyes in 2017. No one expects Glover-Williams to play quarterback at Ohio State. He likely will play the slot position where Dontre Wilson now plays or cornerback.

Clark is a big left-hander that Meyer has fallen in love with. Their presence in Columbus will keep a significant Stark County presence on the field for the Buckeyes for plenty of years to come, especially when considering running back Bri'onte Dunn has three more years at running back and Gareon Conley will have four more after this season at cornerback or wide receiver.

NCAA rules do not permit Meyer to talk about recruits until they are signed and on campus. However, when a recent question to Meyer was phrased as "I'm not saying you have, but if you would ever offer a 15-year-old high school quarterback a scholarship, what's the thought process that goes into it?"

Meyer's eyes lit up a little bit.

Massillon head coach Jason Hall wasn't surprised Clark was offered so early, but the idea of offering 15-year-old freshmen is new.

"I think it depends on what you're doing with the recruiting process," Hall said. "When you look at a kid and he has the tangibles with the height and strength and the football IQ, that has a lot to do with where you're projecting a kid. Danny was already a highly ranked kid and he said from Day 1 he wanted to be at Ohio State. Urban came in after the McKinley game and made the comment that his last left-handed quarterback was special, and 'I love left-handed QBs.' "

That last lefty was Tim Tebow.

In addition to Clark and Glover-Williams, former GlenOak quarterback Reid Worstell is a walkon quarterback in his freshman season with the Buckeyes.

MEYER NOT OVER IT

Meyer is trying to move his team past a disappointing loss to Michigan State in the Big Ten title game. Ohio State kind of put all its eggs into winning that game and getting to the BCS National Championship.

Now, Meyer has to move his team past the mental hurdle of that disappointment and "settling" for a reward of playing in the Orange Bowl. Reward isn't my word; it's a word several players have used to describe the bowl game.

Clearly, though, Meyer hasn't completely gotten past the loss.

When we asked Meyer if he was over the loss, his response was another question.

"Am I over it?" he said without answering, but tightening his lips.

"Have you turned the page?" Meyer was asked.

"Yeah," he said.

And that was it. He smiled, briefly, and clearly wanted to move on to a different line of questions.

NO BIG CHANGES AT MASSILLON

While there has been some pressure on Jason Hall, who just finished his sixth season as Massillon's head coach, there aren't any planned coaching staff changes other than one that already has been made.

Longtime Massillon assistant coach Jeff Huffman has retired. Over the years, Huffman, who was an excellent receiver himself, has coached many positions on offense. He had two sons, Beau and Brent, who were star tight ends. Brent went on to play at Duke and Beau has been offered by Akron, Kent State and Toledo.

Based on some things I've heard, expect Hall to be offered a three-year contract extension in the spring based on the recommendation of superintendent Rik Goodright.

"Jason has my unwavering support as our athletic director and football coach," Goodright said. "He is my guy until he does something to change my mind."

Hall has a year left on his contract, but typically multi-year contracts have been extended before that final year starts.

HOOVER GIRLS BASKETBALL

The addition of Marquia Turner to Hoover's girls basketball team is a difference maker on a team that already was going to be the county's best program this season. There are some things that still are unknown about the Vikings.

Turner has been able to blend into the team, and chemistry has not been upset. But, we won't know just how good Hoover is until the middle of January at the Classic in the Country Tournament at Berlin Hiland.

The Vikings are scheduled to play two games at one of the top tournaments in the country. They will play Lakota West at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 19 and then Regis Jesuit from Colorado the next day at 1:30. Two days after that, Hoover heads to McKinley for a rematch of a game that it won last week.

Just before the Classic in the Country tournament, Hoover will play Magnificat and Lake.

BROWNS BUNGLING THINGS OFF THE FIELD, TOO

Let's see if we can get this right. The Cleveland Browns, the worst franchise in the NFL since the team returned in 1999, has rolled out another sub-par product this year, and it still can't treat its blindly loyal fans well?

Last week while weather forecasters were predicting snowfall in Cleveland, and, by merely peeking out their office windows, team executives could see that — in fact — it was snowing, fans were arriving at FirstEnergy Stadium and finding most of their seats covered in snow.

"We need to do a better job," team president Alec Scheiner said on 92.3 The Fan. "We knew there would be a big storm coming in Saturday and it hit. It's hard to deal with because snow keeps falling even while you're removing it. We cleared the aisles, we cleared the ramps, we cleared the steps, we cleared the plazas, but we didn't clear every seat and we should've. We know that and in the future we will."

No wonder about 40,000 came to watch the game.

The Browns are responsible for game-day operation of the stadium and expenses related to those.